White House Aides Object To Jokes About The Clintons

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March 23, 1996

WASHINGTON — White House aides objected to off-color jokes about the president and his wife, delivered in their presence, by radio shock-jock Don Imus. They objected so much so that a call went out to C-Span on Friday. Press secretary Mike McCurry called the cable station to ask that the Radio and Television Correspondents Association's 52nd annual dinner, held Thursday night, not be replayed. C-Span declined to do so, saying it was a public event. Imus' speech included jokes about Bill Clinton's alleged extramarital affairs, Hillary Rodham Clinton's alleged financial peccadillos and the homosexuality of House Speaker Newt Gingrich's half-sister.